RE: Sources on the Syrian Civil War
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Originally Posted by OUTLAW 09
Azor....something to think about as this topic has largely gone totally unnoticed by most US writers and MSM when they mention the words Syria... IS....Iran and Assad in the same sentence...
If you take the time to read most of what Lister...Weiss....Orton and Hassan Hassan have written about the connections of Assad to the development and support to first QJBR/AQI and then IS and still continued support via the Kurdish YPG/PKK as well as the Iranian support to IS.....we might have had a far different Syrain discussion coming out of the Obama WH......
I'm not trying to dismiss your sources. In fact, you have provided outstanding coverage of the Ukrainian and Syrian wars, even if at the risk of error because by the time the item is confirmed, it is no longer up-to-date.
I am a steadfast supporter of the Free Syrian Army and White Helmets, as well as of the UAF and paramilitaries in their struggle against Russia.
However, there are reasonable concerns that in Syria, the moderate pro-democrats will be crushed between dynastic and Islamist authoritarian factions (as in Egypt). I say dynastic, because Syrian Ba'athism serves the Assad family just as Iraqi Ba'athism served the Husseins. Their use and misuse of religious and tribal affinities in order to retain and propagate power is no different than the royal dynasties of the Gulf Arab states.
Similarly, in Ukraine, there are paramilitaries with obvious Fascist/National Socialist taints (not unlike Russia's "volunteers"), even if the majority are simply brave patriots, and corruption remains as much a problem under the pro-Western government as it did under the pro-Russian one.
On Disqus, I will take on any person claiming that Assad represents stability and/or that the opposition is comprised of foreign terrorists (what of the IRGC and Hezbollah). But I also want to make sure that Muslim supremacists are not being lionized simply because they are fighting Assad. Question everything, right?
What are your thoughts on the reliability of Al-Monitor (D.C.), The Daily Star (Lebanon) and the Peninsular Qatar (Doha)?